So my most current project that still hasn't gotten done is my Nurgle defiler. I'm not sure what direction I'm heading in with it anymore, But here is the overall process I've been through so far:


Step 1: Basecoat of Calthan Brown on everything except the claws/guns


Step 2: Camo pattern with Catachan Green, Vermin Brown, and Scorched Brown.

Step 3: I didn't take a picture of this step, but here I drybrushed a layer of 50/50 Kommando Khaki and Bubonic Brown, and then speckled little bits of Vomit Brown in random spots.


Step 4: This is where I'm stuck at now. I drybrushed an equal mix of Camo Green, Kommando Khaki, and Graveyard Earth, inked it with Gryphonne Sepia, and drybrushed it again with 2:1:1 Mix of Camo, Khaki, and Graveyard.

Next I need to ink it with Devlan Mud, possibly drybrush it one more time, and then start working on the guns and claws and what not. Anybody have any ideas to add to this? I bought some green stuff and have no clue what to do with it.

LadyGray wrote:Next I need to ink it with Devlan Mud, possibly drybrush it one more time, and then start working on the guns and claws and what not. Anybody have any ideas to add to this? I bought some green stuff and have no clue what to do with it.

I like the color scheme, and I think your plans for the devlan mud are a good idea. As far as greenstuff goes, you really just have to experiment with it. It might look good to cover up some of the joins where the arms and legs meet the body at the ball joints with a fleshy pattern. It really depends on if you want to keep a more mechanical look to the defiler or if you want a more possessed version. Greenstuffed symbols of nurgle on the armor plates would also be cool.

But job's a good 'un so far!

Liking the colour scheme so far. I have pics of a Nurgle Defiler that I have recently finished in my gallery, it might help inspire you. I didn't GS anything major just little bits and pustules which are well easy to do.

Also, this was the first model that I painted, a Nurgle Rhino. Its definitely not the best, but I'm trying to make my Defiler look like a better version of this style.

Well, so far it looks nice and old and weathered. But if it's Nurgle, you'll want lots of rust, and almost definately puss and other disgusting things dripping down from and oozing out of most if not all joints. This is where the Green Stuff comes in! You can slap on a wad of GS pretty much anywhere, since so much of Nurgle is random pestulence, and mold it to look like guts, tentacles, random eyeballs, rust, thick globs of puss from infection or a swarm of insects or something! There are at least dozens if not hundred of examples here on Dakka that show just that, and I'm sure many tutorials on how to go about sculpting if you haven't done it yet. Good luck, keep it up, and have a good look around!

*edit* Took me so long to write, most of what I worte was already said!

That rhino looks hella dope! *subscribe* I want to see how that Defiler turns out.

MegaDave wrote:

LadyGray wrote:Next I need to ink it with Devlan Mud, possibly drybrush it one more time, and then start working on the guns and claws and what not. Anybody have any ideas to add to this? I bought some green stuff and have no clue what to do with it.

I like the color scheme, and I think your plans for the devlan mud are a good idea. As far as greenstuff goes, you really just have to experiment with it. It might look good to cover up some of the joins where the arms and legs meet the body at the ball joints with a fleshy pattern. It really depends on if you want to keep a more mechanical look to the defiler or if you want a more possessed version. Greenstuffed symbols of nurgle on the armor plates would also be cool.

But job's a good 'un so far!

Hmm. I might try that Nurgle symbol idea. That sounds like fun. I was thinking that instead of a fleshy lookin thing, I might just make little spiderwebs on all the non-moving parts, and maybe sculpt some mean-lookin boils and teeth around it. I personally like to work on cars and such, I dig the mechanical look.

LadyGray wrote:
Hmm. I might try that Nurgle symbol idea. That sounds like fun. I was thinking that instead of a fleshy lookin thing, I might just make little spiderwebs on all the non-moving parts, and maybe sculpt some mean-lookin boils and teeth around it. I personally like to work on cars and such, I dig the mechanical look.

Sure, you can always go the "boring" route! J/K, Boils and teeth and Nurgle symbols would look great!

djphranq wrote:That rhino looks hella dope! *subscribe* I want to see how that Defiler turns out.

Thanks man, I have been hating on that Rhino since I painted it. Something about never feeling like it's done. I'm glad you like it though, that makes me feel validated in leaving it the hell alone. Haha

RSJake wrote:Well, so far it looks nice and old and weathered. But if it's Nurgle, you'll want lots of rust, and almost definately puss and other disgusting things dripping down from and oozing out of most if not all joints. This is where the Green Stuff comes in! You can slap on a wad of GS pretty much anywhere, since so much of Nurgle is random pestulence, and mold it to look like guts, tentacles, random eyeballs, rust, thick globs of puss from infection or a swarm of insects or something! There are at least dozens if not hundred of examples here on Dakka that show just that, and I'm sure many tutorials on how to go about sculpting if you haven't done it yet. Good luck, keep it up, and have a good look around!

*edit* Took me so long to write, most of what I worte was already said!

I actually bought some stuff from the craft store where you paint on a layer of this liquid that turns to metal, and then another liquid that rusts it. I plan on that being the last step. I'm definitely going to try my hand at sculpting, I just hope it turns out alright. I'll search for some guides.

RSJake wrote:Sure, you can always go the "boring" route! J/K, Boils and teeth and Nurgle symbols would look great!

Well that settles it, it's goin downnn!.. After I get off work.

Never heard of the liquid metal/rust stuff! What's it called?

RSJake wrote:Never heard of the liquid metal/rust stuff! What's it called?

I'll let you know when I get home. Its really just absolute genius in a bottle. I used it to rust out the underside of my ork trukk, and I was expecting just the color of rust, but nope, real, textured, smelly rust. I love it. I think the same product line has antiquing liquid (To get that old bluish calcium color), and a stone one too.


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RSJake wrote:Never heard of the liquid metal/rust stuff! What's it called?

Okay, so Im home now. This stuff is called Sophisticated Finishes, the company is Triangle Crafts. The Rusting kit comes in a box with Iron Metallic Surfacer, and a bottle of Rust Antiquing Solution. I bought it at Michaels for somewhere around 12 bucks.

Stop hating the rhino! for a first model it's pretty damn good! I've always been a fan of non-random-pestilence-everywhere nurgle, which you have achieved quite well on the rhino!

Looking forward to seeing more work on the defiler!

LadyGray wrote:This stuff is called Sophisticated Finishes, the company is Triangle Crafts. The Rusting kit comes in a box with Iron Metallic Surfacer, and a bottle of Rust Antiquing Solution. I bought it at Michaels for somewhere around 12 bucks.

Awesome! I'll have to look into it! Do you have some pics of what it looks like yet?

Looks very good.

While it can look cool, you don't have to go way overboard with Nurgle conversions. Maybe some slime dripping from the end of the barrel. Maybe a few bloated corpses on the base. Some flies crawling over the hull. Stained 'foot'prints. Disease isn't always visible; show the aftermath and the other things disease brings

Leigen_Zero wrote:Stop hating the rhino! for a first model it's pretty damn good! I've always been a fan of non-random-pestilence-everywhere nurgle, which you have achieved quite well on the rhino!

Looking forward to seeing more work on the defiler!

Aw thank you. I agree, I just want to get really good at using paints to convey what I want before I go all nuts with green stuff. I want to make things look cool on their own, and then experiment a bit later. I think I did pretty damn good for a first model too, but I'm a harsh critic on my own work, Everything from then on must be at least twice as good.

RSJake wrote:Awesome! I'll have to look into it! Do you have some pics of what it looks like yet?

Hmm, another thing I can get for ya when I head home. I need to do one more layer of rusting, but I'll take a few pictures for you of my trukk. It's pretty interesting stuff. I had painted my trukk to look rusty, and now it actually is rusty. Love it. Things like this make me wish I lived closer to the craft store. :p

Nightbringer's Chosen wrote:While it can look cool, you don't have to go way overboard with Nurgle conversions. Maybe some slime dripping from the end of the barrel. Maybe a few bloated corpses on the base. Some flies crawling over the hull. Stained 'foot'prints. Disease isn't always visible; show the aftermath and the other things disease brings

You and me are on the same page here. I dig simplicity. I think you'll be pleased with the way it turns out. This is pretty much what I was going for in the beginning, and I lost track for a while, but now I think I have a pretty good base of ideas to work off of now. I also went down to the GW store and painted there for a while. I got some pretty good ideas from the guys down there too.

Are you going to let the demon command it or do it under human control?

Im pretty sure that I don't have a choice, all Defilers are demon-possessed. Unless I have my orks loot it.

On an unrelated note sort of, I just played my first warhammer game. 1250 points each, chaos v. Grey knights v. Orks. My ork army has proven themselves ded killy. I am 10 times more motivated to paint them now.

I want to get a good sized army before I start playing.

Miss Dee wrote:I want to get a good sized army before I start playing.

Yeah I feel the same way. I am lucky enough to have a boyfriend with a table at the house, and his cousin who also plays. We stayed up really late playing. I probably won't play in the gw store until I've figured out a good ork strategy.

My boyfriend is lucky enough to have a girlfriend that plays 40k.

Fixed that for ya!

+1 Hahahaha! My wife just says: "Oh, he's playing with his toys again..." She just doesn't get me.

MegaDave wrote:

My boyfriend is lucky enough to have a girlfriend that plays 40k.

Fixed that for ya!

Ahahaha, thank ya. He is unlucky though, because my boys ran a train on his chaos army. RIP Abadon.

RSJake wrote:+1 Hahahaha! My wife just says: "Oh, he's playing with his toys again..." She just doesn't get me.

You should try to get her into it! Or at least let her roll your dice. Us women love rolling dice..

LadyGray wrote:You should try to get her into it! Or at least let her roll your dice. Us women love rolling dice..

I don't see this happening...

*Gives RS a Gibbs slap* If you have a shok attack gun that will help pin the chaos down and then mobz of what say 20 boyz?

Miss Dee wrote:*Gives RS a Gibbs slap*

I was going to ask what this was, but then I was like NCIS....got it.

Uhhhh, so.. I have really been procrastinating. As a punishment (and treat) for myself, I decided to stay up until 8 in the morning to paint this sexy guy, who I call "Mr Clean":



I feel like I've been getting much better as a painter lately, but I forgot the one and possibly most important rule of painting.. Use good lighting! After scoping him out a few times in the daylight, I realized that I missed a pretty decent amount of details. Looks like I'll be up again patching him up. But any constructive criticism is appreciated.




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Oh yeah, and I have some pretty sweet ideas for the base, I am looking to get this guy into tip-top shape for my store's painting competition. This will officially be the first model that I have finished, or at least gotten comfortable enough to stop messing with. I should win a trophy. Haha.

Much promise I see in you. Keep it up!

My defiler has been abandoned, but is almost nearing the end of his painting days, and entering the days of war. (The bloody kind.)




Aaaaand, for your viewing pleasure.. I present you with a REAL vietnam-era tank. Fully-operating bad-assery from one of the local mechanics.




And an update from me, I can't seem to keep a handle on one project at a time. My orks are still just primed black, I've taken over my boyfriend's Nurgle army entirely, and I have entered the world of Fantasy riding on the coat-tails of my Vampire Counts. Not to mention I've had my eyeball on some of those new Dark Eldar models.. Anybody else going through a hard time picking a project to work on?

Ok so picture of a real tank=awesome. your paint job are very good also. i wanna see your ork stuff though cause we all know ORK's are the best.....

Man, I have to say that a lot of the small conversions I did on my orks are awesome, but I haven't quite figured out how I want to paint them, so I haven't even touched them yet. I have been trying to figure this dilemma out for at least 2 months now. I see alot of people painting their orks bright green, but mine are dirty and gross sewer dudes, and i'm having a hard time finding a good shade of green that is dirty but not too muddy looking. I will definitely attempt to get some of them painted this weekend though.

Nice, i am the exact same way. i have sculpted a bunch of custom thing's for my ork army. but currently i only have 2 fig's painted(a warbuggy and a nob). i am doing purple pants on my cause i want them to kinda look like an army of hulks. but eventially i will paint mine.


as for a dirty green, what about starting with the snotling green then going darker and darker shades of drown/greens to achieve the dirty sewery effect. idk thou i am a sculpter not a painter lol.....

I know this is going to sound a little off but what if you painted them up with a dark green base and some skin markings like the TMNT did in the third movie?

tony_nids_10 wrote:I know this is going to sound a little off but what if you painted them up with a dark green base and some skin markings like the TMNT did in the third movie?

Do you mean kinda speckle-y?



If this is what you're talking about, then sir, we are definitely on the same page. (I totally want to make a skaven-head conversion for my warboss and name him Splinter. Hahaha)

Ok seriously that would be an epic army. you could do different squads in different colors to represent each turtle.

o man this is the most epic thing ever.....

NicMonsteR wrote:Nice, i am the exact same way. i have sculpted a bunch of custom thing's for my ork army. but currently i only have 2 fig's painted(a warbuggy and a nob). i am doing purple pants on my cause i want them to kinda look like an army of hulks. but eventially i will paint mine.


as for a dirty green, what about starting with the snotling green then going darker and darker shades of drown/greens to achieve the dirty sewery effect. idk thou i am a sculpter not a painter lol.....

Haha, you know, my head never made the connection that orks are pretty much a society of hulks. That is an awesome idea and I approve.

When I think of orks, I think of all of my metalhead/biker friends, but painted green and alot dumber. (Alot drunker on a consistant basis, too!) I grew up in Los Angeles around train tracks and graffiti, and I want to somehow incorporate that into my army. I used to do some late-night bombing myself when I was younger, so I'm thinking I might have a job ahead of me here, making some tagged up trukks and what-nots. And it may SOUND like I have a plan, but these are all still things floating in my head.

LadyGray wrote:
Haha, you know, my head never made the connection that orks are pretty much a society of hulks. That is an awesome idea and I approve.

When I think of orks, I think of all of my metalhead/biker friends, but painted green and alot dumber. (Alot drunker on a consistant basis, too!) I grew up in Los Angeles around train tracks and graffiti, and I want to somehow incorporate that into my army. I used to do some late-night bombing myself when I was younger, so I'm thinking I might have a job ahead of me here, making some tagged up trukks and what-nots. And it may SOUND like I have a plan, but these are all still things floating in my head.

thats funny i grew up the same way. i live pretty close to L.A. also. i thought of the ork's as metal heads too. i am gunna to my bikers as the WAAAGGGHH ANGLS. they are gunna have tattoo's and biker vest with the patches on the back and everything. now it just comes down to when i can actually do all this stuff haha.

i kinda like the idea of graffitti on the ork vehicle's. that seems orky.

You know what I just realized also? Going the TMNT route would fit my sewer theme VERY well.

Now those idea juices are flowin..


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NicMonsteR wrote:
thats funny i grew up the same way. i live pretty close to L.A. also. i thought of the ork's as metal heads too. i am gunna to my bikers as the WAAAGGGHH ANGLS. they are gunna have tattoo's and biker vest with the patches on the back and everything. now it just comes down to when i can actually do all this stuff haha.

i kinda like the idea of graffitti on the ork vehicle's. that seems orky.

I've been to Simi Valley a few times too, I know you can relate. Haha. I am definitely going with the graffiti ideas. My ork boyz gang is called Da Rokkheds, and my nobs are Da Hedrokkas. -insert growing excitement for ork army-

LadyGray great working your Nurgle legion If you need ideas on how to use greenstuff take a look at my east coast buddy Skalk Bloodaxe's work. His greenstuff work is amazing. That should get your idea juices flowing. Also looking forward to your orks. Keep up the good work.

my army is kalled Da Purpa Trouzers. its kinda a stupid name but i think it is funny.

What if in addition to the graffitti on the vehicles you put something like biker patches on their cloths? Maybe prospect ones in grots? I think I've been watching too much sons of anarchy lately

GreyDeathOne wrote:LadyGray great working your Nurgle legion If you need ideas on how to use greenstuff take a look at my east coast buddy Skalk Bloodaxe's work. His greenstuff work is amazing. That should get your idea juices flowing. Also looking forward to your orks. Keep up the good work.

Thank you for the compliment! And I will definitely check that guy out. I love looking at pictures of cool things, especially ones I can learn from. BUT ONLY if you would be so kind to vote on my nurgle prince in my gallery.. Well, you don't HAVE to, but you should. :p

NicMonsteR wrote:my army is kalled Da Purpa Trouzers. its kinda a stupid name but i think it is funny.

Haha, I dig it! I imagine my orks to have a heavy scottish-type accent, and those are the only type of people I know besides older folk that use the word 'trousers' I can't wait to see pics of your army, it definitely intrigues me.

tony_nids_10 wrote:What if in addition to the graffitti on the vehicles you put something like biker patches on their cloths? Maybe prospect ones in grots? I think I've been watching too much sons of anarchy lately

I definitely have plans to do this, I just haven't figured out what logo I want them to have. I am, however, going to be green-stuffing some mohawks and liberty spikes and what not onto them (If I can figure out what color ork hair would be.. On second thought, probably red so they can think fasta!) I was thinking I'd give them studded jackets too, at least on my bikers.
And one last thing to say to you, sir. There is no such thing as too much Sons of Anarchy. Okay? Got it?! -froths at mouth-

glad to hear it! Looking forward to more everything!

LadyGray wrote:Haha, I dig it! I imagine my orks to have a heavy scottish-type accent, and those are the only type of people I know besides older folk that use the word 'trousers' I can't wait to see pics of your army, it definitely intrigues me.

now if only i could paint well enough to make it worth the wait.

NicMonsteR wrote:

LadyGray wrote:Haha, I dig it! I imagine my orks to have a heavy scottish-type accent, and those are the only type of people I know besides older folk that use the word 'trousers' I can't wait to see pics of your army, it definitely intrigues me.

now if only i could paint well enough to make it worth the wait.

Practice makes perfect, and the best thing about orks is that.. they're orks. They don't care about looking good. One of the guys at my local gw painted his orks with uhh.. orkhide shade, washed with devlan mud, and then highlighted with snot green. It's a really simple way to get alot of them painted and it looks really good. I say go simple and don't feel overwhelmed. Keeping to a small color palette is the way to go.

So it's 3:15 am, and I am compelled to tell somebody:

Oh my Gork, I have created something so orky and horrifying, that you will shake in your internet boots. Pics coming soon.

-Kitty.

So I sent my boyfriend to the comic store to get some more super glue, and he came back with this:



I think that these dreads are WAY cooler than the new ones, call me crazy. I've been trying to hunt one down pretty much since I started the hobby. WHOO! So stoked.

Also, does anybody know how long it takes to get something shipped from ForgeWorld? I heard that it pretty much always takes at least a month to receive things from them, is this true?


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Oh, and the dread is not the boot-shaking horrific monster I was talking about. Back to the lab... Muahahahahaha!!

LadyGray wrote:
I think that these dreads are WAY cooler than the new ones, call me crazy. I've been trying to hunt one down pretty much since I started the hobby. WHOO! So stoked.

You think it's amazing now, once you have assembled it you will feel the pain shared by all old-school ork players worldwide!!! those things are an absolute pig to put together and fall apart quicker than a teenager on a daytime talk show

They are pretty nice models though, I've got a bunch of the old metal killa kanz, though personally I prefer the new plastic ones.

As for a skin tone, I use
Orkhide Shade -> 1:1 Orkhide Shade:Goblin Green -> Badab Black -> 1:1 Orkhide Shade:Goblin Green -> Goblin green (use sparingly on scars/eyebrow ridges/nose/lips etc, because I like the appearance of extreme highlights)

That gives a pretty dulled+gritty looking skintone (the nobz in my gallery are painted this way), maybe if you experimented along that it might give you the grimy look you're after (maybe try using devlan mud instead of badab black and toning down the extreme highlight?)

Leigen_Zero wrote:
You think it's amazing now, once you have assembled it you will feel the pain shared by all old-school ork players worldwide!!! those things are an absolute pig to put together and fall apart quicker than a teenager on a daytime talk show

They are pretty nice models though, I've got a bunch of the old metal killa kanz, though personally I prefer the new plastic ones.

As for a skin tone, I use
Orkhide Shade -> 1:1 Orkhide Shade:Goblin Green -> Badab Black -> 1:1 Orkhide Shade:Goblin Green -> Goblin green (use sparingly on scars/eyebrow ridges/nose/lips etc, because I like the appearance of extreme highlights)

That gives a pretty dulled+gritty looking skintone (the nobz in my gallery are painted this way), maybe if you experimented along that it might give you the grimy look you're after (maybe try using devlan mud instead of badab black and toning down the extreme highlight?)

Haha, I expected that result when I learned the hard way. I bought the Tzeench Demon Prince, and painted him up SO nice. When I was ready to build his base, he rolled over and turned into a chipped up pile of bitz. What an donkey-cave. After that I learned to expect the worst from the metal models. I have the new plastic Deff Dread too, I just wish they would make a plastic cast of the old one. But, since they don't, I'll just give myself something to stress about. (It makes the 8-5 job seem a lot less of an annoyance.)
Also, I'm going to check out your gallery. That sounds like a pretty simple way to do it. I also saw some crazy ork tutorial the other day where you basecoat it yellow and ink it with Thraka a few times. It looked pretty spectacular, but I'd probably find a way to mess that up. Thanks for the tips though, my orks are going to launch their Waagh on me if I don't paint them soon. (They said so)

I've seen that tutorial too, it's damn nice looking if you get it right.

Better get cracking then Ms Gray, they can be dangerous in numbers!

Some good looking models, how long have you been painting for?

corpsesarefun wrote:Some good looking models, how long have you been painting for?

About 6 or 7 months since I painted my first model. I can't say I've gotten much done since then, but I have some pretty brutal things to add to this thread today. I just got a working paint scheme for my orks that I'm in love with. Thank you for the compliment! I have been trying to keep improving my models at least twice as good as the last one painted.

I like the rhino, its decrepit and clearly time-worn without being too OTT - weathering, and more importantly, weathering that looks appropriate and realistic, is a very difficult skill to learn and put into practice. I feel you have succeeded here. I think I shall make use of Lego's exalt button. Hopefully, this thread gets more attention and you post some more work for us!

Was just flippin' through the blogs and noticed the Defiler WIP and Rhino.

Consider this subscribed.

As to this...

Also, does anybody know how long it takes to get something shipped from ForgeWorld? I heard that it pretty much always takes at least a month to receive things from them, is this true?

It depends on what precisely you ordered. Books tend to arrive faster than models, but Forge World themselves say that 28 days is the longest you should give models arriving to any part of the US.
If they haven't arrived by that timeframe, contact your local mail office and make sure it wasn't just held up at the processing center.

Speaking from experience on the East Coast though, you should be looking at around two weeks tops if the piece shipped the day you ordered it.

LadyGray wrote:

corpsesarefun wrote:Some good looking models, how long have you been painting for?

About 6 or 7 months since I painted my first model. I can't say I've gotten much done since then, but I have some pretty brutal things to add to this thread today. I just got a working paint scheme for my orks that I'm in love with. Thank you for the compliment! I have been trying to keep improving my models at least twice as good as the last one painted.

Is that all?

Colour me impressed, and subscribed.

filbert wrote:I like the rhino, its decrepit and clearly time-worn without being too OTT - weathering, and more importantly, weathering that looks appropriate and realistic, is a very difficult skill to learn and put into practice. I feel you have succeeded here. I think I shall make use of Lego's exalt button. Hopefully, this thread gets more attention and you post some more work for us!

Oh man, you're making me blush! Haha. Thank you for the compliment. I had alot of fun painting that Rhino. That was precisely the thing that really got me motivated to paint in the first place, and I feel like I've come a long way since then. But it definitely shows the style I want to go for with my orks, slightly beaten up, but doesn't look overbearingly dirty. And if you think that's cool, you just wait until I post pictures of my battle wagon. Its my first conversion and definitely something I'm proud to show off.

Kanluwen wrote:Was just flippin' through the blogs and noticed the Defiler WIP and Rhino.

Consider this subscribed.

As to this...

Also, does anybody know how long it takes to get something shipped from ForgeWorld? I heard that it pretty much always takes at least a month to receive things from them, is this true?

It depends on what precisely you ordered. Books tend to arrive faster than models, but Forge World themselves say that 28 days is the longest you should give models arriving to any part of the US.
If they haven't arrived by that timeframe, contact your local mail office and make sure it wasn't just held up at the processing center.

Speaking from experience on the East Coast though, you should be looking at around two weeks tops if the piece shipped the day you ordered it.

Well I live in Southern Cali, so I imagine it'd take a day or two longer than yours. I just wanted to order the supakannon for my battle wagon, but I think I'm going to save that for when I have a few other things on the Forgeworld list. I'm particularly impatient when it comes to things in the mail, I can't imagine the agony of having to wait 2 whole weeks per item! But thank you for letting me know from experience, I couldn't reasonably believe that anyone still follows the '6-8 business week' rule. Also, thank you for subscribing, I'm glad that you like my work so far. It will only get better from here.





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So, first off I'll show you the ork boy I painted last night. Kind of a test model to see if it would look good, and I think it does:


I'd definitely appreciate some constructive criticism, as I feel like theres still some improvements to be made. But this was pretty simple to do and I /do/ have about 50 orks to be painted currently, with more to come. If you don't have any criticism, let me know if he looks cool or not because I'm going to have a whole army of it. Haha.

And... *drum roll* My Spider Waaaghon!! Its my first conversion and I think it turned out well.



I'm proud of it, and if you'd like to chat about it I started a new thread found here:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/386271.page

And if you would be oh so kind, please vote on my gallery if you have a chance. I have all the wagon pictures up, along with my ork boy and my nurgle stuff. Thanks in advance!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/user/42147-LadyGray.html

that is great! Nice conversion and your Ork looks great. Seems like you nailed the skin tone.

tony_nids_10 wrote: that is great! Nice conversion and your Ork looks great. Seems like you nailed the skin tone.

Thank you! I finally figured out what to do with the skin. Kind of tied in my Nurgle palette to it, and it seems to highlight them well. I originally wanted to dull them out a little, I dig dull colors, but I think I'm going to stick with the semi-vibrant colors where needed. Im getting so stoked about my ork army now, and I will give credit to Dakka for the motivation.

That colour scheme looks great! Personally I think it's not that vibrant, it's just a paler scheme that makes it a bit brighter than it is.

And the spider-wagon looks superb! Great use of the arachnarok spider.

Is that the arachnok? Did you use the bulbous back side of it? If not let me know! I've been searching for one

Yeah, unfortunately I had to cut it in half to make a flat surface.

wherez da rust, ya git?

Looks really good so far.

I feel like I'm holding true to the thread title, I am Kitty the Master Procrasturbater. Somehow I managed to slap together an update for you guys, so here you go, I present to you, my storm boyz. This is my current mob and I intend for it to double in size in the near future:

'Da Boss'


'Da Mob'


Zog Yeah!!!

Well it would seem you have kicked the old procrastination habit a bit The boyz look great btw!

Thanks Tony! I stopped by my GW today and picked up some Lootas and Burnas. This army is coming together so nicely, I might have to take a group picture. I also have a partially assembled Boss Zagstrukk to add to the Stormies mob.

I also picked up Vlad von Carstein! Whoo! Loving these new Vampire Count models.

Wooo stormboyz!

Love the models, rules and fluff, be nice to see them painted though! Watch out for the Zaggy model, if it's still in metal then he's a pain to assembled and keep assembled (specifically, the leg/base to the torso and the choppa arm)

Leigen_Zero wrote:Wooo stormboyz!

Love the models, rules and fluff, be nice to see them painted though! Watch out for the Zaggy model, if it's still in metal then he's a pain to assembled and keep assembled (specifically, the leg/base to the torso and the choppa arm)

You know, I actually ended up with a miscasted finecast Zagstrukk model. Going to get that replaced soon. The only metal thing I have for my orks is my deff dread. I'll get to painting soon, but I've been trying to help my boyfriend prepare for 'Ard Boyz. It's tomorrow! After that I'll bust the whip out and get crackin.

I bought Dreadfleet last night. Pictures will be coming.. eventually. But I'm so stoked about it, it could very well start getting done next week. Whoo killy boats!

Cool. Looking forward to seeing them.

Funny, I hear all these horror stories about miscast finecast. I have several now, and haven't had a problem at all. Not even a bubble!

LadyGray wrote:I bought Dreadfleet last night. Pictures will be coming.. eventually. But I'm so stoked about it, it could very well start getting done next week. Whoo killy boats!

I shall sink your boat, then watch it burn underwater xD

dsteingass wrote:Funny, I hear all these horror stories about miscast finecast. I have several now, and haven't had a problem at all. Not even a bubble!

Lucky you. All four I have gotten have been messed up one way or another.

Dreadfleet. Should be fun to see what you do with it. But we need more orks. The spider conversion look awesome. Lets see some paint on it.

schank23 wrote:Dreadfleet. Should be fun to see what you do with it. But we need more orks. The spider conversion look awesome. Lets see some paint on it.

I agree with this! Lets see some paint

Ohhh the pressure! I just recently rescued a puppy, and he's been chewing on my minis. I am in the process of moving all of my warhammer stuff into my office so I can paint at work. I have been painting a little bit, I got a squad of Necron scarabs painted and I also got my boyfriends table painted. (It has been looking ugly for the past year..)

COMPLAINT #1: I also got my Lord of Change near finished. It is my absolute favorite model in 40k. This is my second LoC model, both painted beautifully. What is the complaint you ask? His f*cking wing broke in half. But that isn't the worst of it. I had my boyfriend glue it back together for me, and the very next day liquid green stuff came out. What would once have been a /slightly/ less detailed part of the wing, is now a line of hideous, boring glue. :(

However, thanks to this post being revived and all of the lovely feedback, I am deciding to commit to painting my spiderwagon. Pics coming up asap. My main delay with the thing is figuring out how I want to paint the spider. But, I will suck it up and figure it out.

LadyGray wrote:Ohhh the pressure! I just recently rescued a puppy, and he's been chewing on my minis. I am in the process of moving all of my warhammer stuff into my office so I can paint at work. I have been painting a little bit, I got a squad of Necron scarabs painted and I also got my boyfriends table painted. (It has been looking ugly for the past year..)

COMPLAINT #1: I also got my Lord of Change near finished. It is my absolute favorite model in 40k. This is my second LoC model, both painted beautifully. What is the complaint you ask? His f*cking wing broke in half. But that isn't the worst of it. I had my boyfriend glue it back together for me, and the very next day liquid green stuff came out. What would once have been a /slightly/ less detailed part of the wing, is now a line of hideous, boring glue. :(

However, thanks to this post being revived and all of the lovely feedback, I am deciding to commit to painting my spiderwagon. Pics coming up asap. My main delay with the thing is figuring out how I want to paint the spider. But, I will suck it up and figure it out.

Lol the puppy loves the expensive stuff I see

I know how you feel about that, I had a couple knights break and the liquid green stuff would have been a real savior.

Yay the spider wagon will get some love finally!

Also you should post some pics of the crons and the table

To-do list for the day:
Spider Wagon: Basecoated.
Next step: Find acceptable music.
Then: Make coffee. REAL coffee. From the hills of Columbia.. (It will awaken you from a thousand deaths)
Last: Get your paint on.

I Recommend some Daft Punk and Folgers Columbian

take it back to GW

LadyGray wrote:To-do list for the day:
Spider Wagon: Basecoated.
Next step: Find acceptable music.
Then: Make coffee. REAL coffee. From the hills of Columbia.. (It will awaken you from a thousand deaths)
Last: Get your paint on.

How did this turn out?

I made coffee. Real coffee.
Then, my boss came in with a to-do list for me. I am going to continue painting in the morning/afternoon, so I can feel accomplished enough to play a game on Sunday. I'm stoked. I finally have a solid idea for my wagon, I know what I want it to look like. Just got to get to it.

It will be done by the end of the month.

The wagon shall live! I can't wait for you to bring it in store on a Saturday to play a game.

I bought a stompa for wagon bitz/terrain.

Deal with it.

Lol. I dont blame ya. I did the same thing. Havent really got around to using them yet but I loved the bitz the stompa had but just dont have use for a stompa.

Sooooooo..... I got some stuff done in the past year and a half, but not nearly enough for me to brag about, so here is my (modest) update.











I just picked up the paintbrush again after a job change, relocation of self, and ending of a relationship. It's cool, I work at a bike shop now. Perfect inspiration for da orkses. So glad to finally start getting stuff painted again. Wish me luck. Or else.

Good luck! The evil voice in my head asks: How much of your ex's armies did you walk away with?

May the new job rock, and the new year roll.

 Briancj wrote:
Good luck! The evil voice in my head asks: How much of your ex's armies did you walk away with?

May the new job rock, and the new year roll.

Hah, good question!! The only thing I took was the old paint set (Not the super snazzy new one). All the stuff I have I bought with my own hard-earned money, except for maybe a box of tank sprues.. and some guns.. And maybe there's some chaos stuff that mysteriously appeared in my trunk. But hey, who's keeping score?
Thank you sir

Orks are looking really really good, the skin tone is ace.

Thanks Spuj! I wanted to go for the more muted tones, it makes the highlighting stand out better. I am in love with this dry underhive ash stuff, I brush it on during the second coat of paint, and then highlight accordingly. then finish it off at the end with another light drybrush of it. My orks don't look dirty, but they are damn snazzy.

The looted spider is looking particularly scary

I believe this 'spider' you are talking about is called a /chassis/..

I think it is called a SPIDER. You and your fancy-schmancy 'bike shop' terms!

Welcome back Lady Gray!

Glad to see the orkses are coming along nicely, 'specially the spiderwagon.

 Leigen_Zero wrote:
Welcome back Lady Gray!

Glad to see the orkses are coming along nicely, 'specially the spiderwagon.

Thank you! It's glad to be back. I've made a lot of progress, at least with getting the paint on the models. My hours were cut from 6 days a week to 3, so I have more than enough time to nerd out. Been having a blast.